[LOG] The First Morning

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Where: Slytherin Dormitories/Hogwarts Courtyard
When: Sunday, November 28, 2021 (fifth year)

Alby woke slowly, feeling oddly content, followed shortly by slight confusion as he realized there was a warm mass in the bed beside him. He briefly wondered if Lily had somehow crawled into bed with him, like she used to at home when she'd had a bad dream, but as soon as he had that thought it dispelled - the person beside him was too warm and too large to be Lily. Alby blinked in the greenish darkness of the enclosed bed, waking further and realizing that this wasn't his bed - and suddenly remembering it was Scorp's. And the person beside him was none other than Scorpius Malfoy himself - Alby's best friend and, if he hadn't made up what he remembered of last night, now his boyfriend.

Memories of last night came flooding back and Alby couldn't help it - a wide grin split his face as he disentangled himself carefully from the bedsheets and looked up at the bed's other occupant. Despite the fact that Alby had obviously moved and gotten a bit tangled in the bedclothes throughout the night, Scorp seemed to be lying in mostly the same position he'd been when they'd fallen asleep - on his back, but now his head was pillowed on folded arms and despite the fact that his eyes were closed, his glasses were perched on his nose, though a bit farther down than usual. Alby chuckled silently and, feeling a bit giddy, slipped up to lean over the blonde and simultaneously slid the glasses properly up his nose and leaned down for a soft, lingering kiss.

"You're already up, aren't you?" he murmured, barely suppressing the urge to run fingers through Scorp's hair and just collapse onto the other and wrap arms around him and never let go. Something about waking up like this made him happier than he'd ever felt, and the thought that it was only the beginning seemed almost too exciting to bear.



[OOC: I was going to have them start with waking up and heading over to get lunch, but then I was thinking we can skip through the meal and get them out to the courtyard so James can be his stupid self. :D; I'm also assuming Scorp is likely just dozing, since there is no way Alby woke up before him? Let me know if that wouldn't be the case and I'll rewrite, though!]

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Scorpius laughed. He was never going to live that hangover in third year down was he? Scorpius smiled as Alby laid back down and wrapped his arms around him; he found that he rather liked being held. They simply laid there in bed, enjoying the morning, enjoying their togetherness, drifting in and out of sleep and conversation, until finally the morning wore on into noon and the lunch bell rang.

"You don't suppose we can accio lunch?" Scorpius wondered out loud, and then grinned a bit as he realized how such a spell might go awry. He pictured the entirety of the food in the Great Hall zooming downstairs through the Slytherin Dungeons in a giant barrage to pelt both him and Alby still in bed like a crazy, one-sided foodfight. Scorpius wrinkled his nose. "On second thought, I don't think that's a very good idea."

Still grinning at each other they got up and dressed, for the first time in a very long time, feeling very unashamed of their bodies. Putting clothes on took a long time, because Scorpius was compelled to kiss Alby every time some article was both taken off and put on, and Alby seemed perfectly content to do the same, and there was only half an hour of lunchtime left by the time they were decent enough to make it out of their dorm and greet the rest of the school.

There was a conspicuous turning of heads as they walked together, their fingers clasped comfortably between them, under the threshold of the Great Hall and to their Slytherin table. Their usual empty spot beside Joe and Alex was empty, so they slid down into their seats and helped themselves to lunch. Scorpius noticed that several of his housemates were doing a rather poor job at pretending to eat while actually watching them out of the corner of their eyes. It was finally Ellimere Sparks who, unable to stand the tension any longer, posed the question. She leaned over Saffron Purkiss, who similarly also leaned over, her eyes fixed right on Scorpius, as her best friend spoke.

"So the two of you are really together?"

"Yes," Scorpius said simply and tersely. He looked at Alby, who grinned back at him, a forkful of spaghetti on his right hand.

"You're not pulling our leg?" Saffron asked.

Scorpius threw an arm around Alby's shoulders. "No." He replied.

"Oh." Saffron looked to her friend, and Ellimere shrugged, not having much else to really ask. "Pity," she said, and went back to her lunch.

Scorpius's eyes narrowed. "Excuse me?"

"I mean, for us, not for you," Ellimere said in a hurry, her hands before her trying to placate Scorpius. "You know, if you and Alby are taken with each other, then all we've got is Joe and Alex."

In the middle of their drinks, Joe and Alex started coughing, glaring at their female yearmates. "Yeah," Alex snorted, "maybe we'd rather go for each other than for the likes of you."

"I disagree," Joe muttered, shoving his friend in the shoulder.

The rest of lunch passed with a lot of winks and nudges from either ends of the table, especially from Rogir and Inigo, who seemed to have taken the news in stride and were fully supportive of whatever was illicitly happening in the dormitory of the fifth year boys.

"Just don't scare your mates too much at night, all right?" Inigo said with a grin, placing hands on both Scorpius and Alby's shoulder. "God you kids are cute."

Scorpius decided it was best not to remind Inigo that he was only 2 years younger, and probably didn't qualify as a 'kid' anymore.

All seemed well as he and Alby made their way out of the Great Hall, even garnering two thumbs up from Hawk at the Ravenclaw table and a small smile from Isabella Fielding sitting next him. Her eyes were red-rimmed and her cheeks were splotchy, but she managed to wave a little as they walked out. Pointedly ignoring Hawk, Scorpius shot a rueful smile in Isabella's direction.

Aimless, they sauntered with some other students outside into the courtyard of the school. They sky was grey and overcast, and it was snowing slightly as they walked together, their fingers still latched together.

"You know," Scorpius said with a smile, breathing deeply the fresh air of the highlands, "I really don't feel like studying today."